Speaker Bio

Haythem El Mir is a cybersecurity expert with more than 17 years. Mr. EL MIR is one of the founders of ANSI and the Tunisian national CERT since 2002, having developed several strategic projects for the Tunisian government as technical director of ANSI.

As a specialist in critical information infrastructure protection (Banking, Telecom, Government, Industry), Mr. EL MIR has participated in numerous cyber security projects in the Africa and Middle East region. In this context, it has set up three research and development units around SCADA system security, IoT and data analysis based on Big Data and Machine Learning.

Mr. EL MIR has been involved in consulting projects in Africa region by setting up national CERTs, SOCs and developing national and sectorial cybersecurity strategies.

Currently, Mr. EL MIR is the CEO of Keystone Group, a cybersecurity consulting company working on MEA region, and manager of the private CERT: CSIRT.tn (joined FIRST in 2019). With Keystone, Haythem is helping government, critical sectors and big companies to develop their cyberdefense program and cybersecurity strategies.

Mr. EL MIR is president of the Tunisian chapter of ISOC, a founding member of the CCA cybersecurity conference in Tunisia.